David Hume

Early Modern
1711-1776Edinburgh, ScotlandSummoned 2 times

As Your Guide

Hume will cheerfully dissolve your certainties and show you that the self is a bundle of experiences with no fixed owner. He guides with warmth and wit through the vertigo of groundlessness. Choose him if you want a guide who finds liberation in uncertainty.

Who They Were

Scottish empiricist who challenged causation, induction, and rational theology.

What They Left Behind

Words that outlived their authors.

A Treatise of Human Nature, Enquiries, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

What Haunts Them

These are the questions that wouldn't let them rest.

Problem of inductionbundle theory of selfis-ought gapnaturalism